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10 Failed Technology Trends of 2005
mikemuch writes "ExtremeTech's Loyd Case muses on ten trends of 2005 that never panned out. He points the finger at analysts like himself for waxing glowy-eyed at technologies like the BTX form factor and the 64-bit version of Windows XP. On DRM and the Sony rootkit fiasco: 'Hint to the music publishers: It's not going to work. There have been easy workarounds to every system that's been tried, and the more stringent the copy protection, the greater the risk of having angry customers who won't buy CDs. I suggest you start investigating new business models, as the old ones ride off into the sunset.'"
One tech trend then will never fail:-
Vaporware
I get so tired of people who quote "Sturgeon's Law" as if it meant something.
Hear, hear. 90% of Sturgeon's Law is crap.
Dual Grapics Cards? most macs can support 2 displays on the existing card.
ALL modern graphics cards have dual output (three if you include S-Video).
You use dual graphics cards (SLI) for GAMING.
Thank you for trying to sound smart!
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SCO
'Nuff said.
I'm referring to typical commuter fare, such as well aged Honda Accords, Toyota Camrays, small pickups, etc.
Bose engineers went at the interiors of some cars to determine the accoustics, which are nothing short of ultra-complex. They designed some very impressive car audio systems. What you have around town is people who consider the installers at Circuit City "factory trained experts", whereas most of these minimum (or slightly above) wage wire jockeys are on a mission to get int hooked up and you and your car out of the way for the next customer. They aren't going around with all manner of reflective sound analyzing equipment, accoustic dampening panels and wot. You can certainly find people who do this, but they likely do it by appointment and charge a pretty penny (and quite a lot of ugly ones, too.)
Audio Fidelity is left to the bass range, which being rather omnidirectional is very forgiving. The rest of the range is probably beyond the tin ears of most drivers, especially those with those exhaust systems which sound like flatulence.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
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Yeah, after looking into it that would probably be enough bandwith for decent sound. Especially considering the source is going to be compressed anyways. But I thought the white cables was part of the "iPod chic." Especially if you wear all black.
Offtopic, but one of my friends dressed as an iPod commercial thing for halloween. Man, that was creepy. She literally blended into the shadows, as her clothing was black and all exposed skin was painted black. I'd be talking to someone else, and all of a sudden she was just there right next to me.
I'll never make that mistake again, reading the experts' opinions. - Feynman
Great insight? If so, I don't get it. I'd guess neither did the mods.
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Here's a nickel kid, go download yourself a copy of WinZip.
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because they haven't figured out step #2.
1. Give away huge free email accounts and make it hard for anybody to permanently erase their e-mail. As a bonus use an invitation-only model to attract the geekiest nerds out there.
2. ???
3. Profit!
Clear, Dark Skies
Today you can proudly announce your gmail address and be regarded as the power user and as an expert in your own field.
Unless it's "hot_pants@gmail.com" that is.
Well that depends on whether you consider it a bug or a feature :D
Call them sellouts and feel superior for knowing them first?
(Not the OP, just guessing.)
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How's this:
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10.3 : Finder kept and displayed Classic MacOS icons. Old photoshop files? 32x32 preview icons, scaled up. Looked like ass but they were there.
10.4 (WITH SPOTLIGHT!!!1oneoneomfg) : Finder not only ignores Classic MacOS icons for images, it now builds new previes for these images regardless of rather or not they have a classic macos preview icon or not. If the document is a few megs, no problem. If it's more than ten, you get some grind - you get a LOT of grind if it's fifty or more megs, while finder/spotlight shits its pants trying to get an idea of what it's looking at. Not only does this preview-building take for-frigging-ever, Finder DOES NOT CACHE THE RESULT . So every time you roll over that image in column view, grind, grind, grind, GRIND, GRIND...
The end result is that column view is now vastly less useful in 10.4. Go Apple.
Yeah, you might care fuckall, but some of us own macs specifically for how the graphics apps handle... and I really do not have the time or patience to reprocess seven years (100+ gigs) of Photoshop documents just to see what I'm fucking LOOKING AT in a modern OS when I had no problems to speak of last year.
It's an issue. We're gaining features and losing functionality. Verily, I am irritated.